RICHLAND, S.C. — On two weekends in January, President Biden turned up at churches in South Carolina, telling parishioners about the racism and hatred he ran for office to combat, then detailing the progress Black Americans have made since then. Vice President Harris visited this state, too, speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day […]Read More

As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to again serve as president, the justices will confront a politically fraught and fractious question: Did he engage in insurrection before and during the assault on the U.S. Capitol onJan. 6, 2021? The issue looms over both the case they will hear this month and […]Read More

Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for alleged election interference, has been accused of misconduct, potentially imperiling one of the most sweeping legal cases against the former president for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Here’s what’s going on and what could happen. One of Trump’s co-defendants […]Read More

At the end of January 2020, The Washington Post and our partners at ABC News released one of the most accurate presidential election polls in recent history. In a head-to-head contest against Joe Biden, incumbent President Donald Trump trailed by four points, 50-46. When all of the voters were counted some 10 months later, this […]Read More

Lawmakers who grilled the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord and X on Wednesday all seemed to agree that protecting children’s safety online was a priority. Many of those children were less accepting of the idea, and they let their opinions flow as they listened to the hearing through a Discord server. “These senators don’t […]Read More

For as long as Republicans have been running against Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential nominating contest, more than a few Trump critics have wondered why they don’t go after him harder. Nikki Haley shows why. A new Washington Post-Monmouth University poll features a somewhat unsurprising top-line number: Trump leads Haley by 26 points, […]Read More

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that his recent cancer diagnosis was a “gut punch” that left him shaken, disclosing new details about his ensuing medical crisis and asserting that he did not direct his staff to withhold the situation from the White House. Austin, speaking to the media for the first time in about […]Read More

It is the nature of our fragmented, siloed media ecosystem that entire controversies can arise and be resolved outside of the view of most people. Controversies centered on TV shows or sports or music, these rise and fall unseen by most Americans, like waves on the shore of Australia. This happens in politics, too, of […]Read More

The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday barred 10 Republican state senators from seeking reelection after a record-long walkout from the legislature last year spurred by objections to a measure intended to protect abortion rights and gender-affirming health care. Oregon voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2022 that disqualified legislators with 10 or more unexcused absences […]Read More

Late Wednesday the House overwhelmingly approved a nearly $80 billion tax package that would renew breaks for big corporations and expand the child tax credit for millions of families, using the same process used for naming post offices. Lawmakers had no chance to offer amendments on the major bipartisan legislation. Debate was brief. And, by […]Read More